Tom Bissell Quotes

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

I've always had an appetite for creating in some capacity.

You can live your dreams, and you can believe in magic. You can live your dreams, and you can be yourself.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve had these doors open wide for only a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. All our faculties keep us within the realm of the real, of what is already there. The most we can do is to combine things or break them up. The metaphor alone furnishes an escape; between the real things, it lets emerge imaginary reefs, a crop of floating islands.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it, you know that's what it is. It's magic.

I truly believe that everyone can be creative; you just need to find your form of expression.

Much like dystopian and post-apocalyptic books are a way to explore the worst-case scenarios lurking around the corner, fantasy can serve as a wonderful tool for showing kids that they have an inherent power in them to create change, both in themselves and in their community.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.